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Taking My Parents to Burning Man (2014)

Taking My Parents to Burning Man poster
Directed by
Joel Ashton McCarthy
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 22m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Bryant Boesen takes his sixty year old parents to the Burning Man festival. The film shows their preparation, travel, and experiences at the event.

lightheartedaffectionateadventurousquirkywhimsicalsurprisingintimate

What happens

Taking My Parents to Burning Man is a 2014 Canadian documentary film directed by Joel Ashton McCarthy and Bryant H. Boesen that follows the latter's adventures with his 60-year-old parents at Burning Man. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation, journey and adventures at the "least-likely family vacation imaginable." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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